God Bless Them

No Friday Funny today--though I'll file this post as such. Instead, I have a video saluting our veterans to post.

First, as always, the week in review:

• Early voting
• Post-birth abortions?
• Governor Perry's religious views
• News papers that "take the stand"
• Howard Dean
• Election results--just what do they mean?
• A new direction for the 'Rs'?
• My disclaimer
• On Republican leadership

Now the video. Thank God for all of our brave men and women who fight and die for the continuation of this country. Enjoy the video:

Good weekends for everybody! Be safe.

Rangers win, week in review and weekend in preview

No Friday Funny today. I have a psych exam--a major psych exam--today and don't have time to go searching for something that is funny, even if I'm the only person who thinks so. Even though I'm going to go ahead and post this as I "Friday Funny", instead, I give you this:



The New York Rangers defeated the Anaheim Ducks Wednesday night in overtime with a beautiful goal from Jaromir Jagr, otherwise known simply as "the damn man." Last night, they finally kept the score low (3-1) and pulled out a win over dominating San Jose. Let us hope that this is a turn around from what we've seen the last few weeks, and that NYR is about to begin dominating the league like they did last November.


Now the week in review:

• Why to vote Republican, Nov 7
• Wolf Blitzer, Lynn Cheney and "The Smackdown"
• Genital mutilation
• Patriotic assassination?
• Christian boy murdered
• Picket Column: Why the Republicans will hold the Congress in '06
• The joke's on him

I'll be finishing this exam this afternoon, but with three research projects due in the next two weeks, I don't know that my schedule will really be that much improved. This weekend I'll be attending the Berkeley County WV Eisenhower Dinner in Martinsburg, WV where Congresswoman Shelly Moore-Capito will be the keynote speaker. I'll post general impressions if I feel up to it.

Ghostbusters

Last week I posted a clip from Boston Legal, with Alan Shore and Denny Crane dressed up like flamingos for Halloween. This week, here's Ray Parker Jr.'s incredibly tacky 80's video to the theme from Ghostbusters. I'm a little late today...usually this goofiness that nobody really cares about is posted by 9 or 10 at the latest, but I was a little preoccupied. So here is the display of total 80's bad taste, but first...you guessed it...Week in Review:

• Shepherd Homecoming 2006
• The Cost of Loyalty
• From Sister Toldjah
• Limbaugh straigtens us out
• More school violence

Sorry for the lack of posting, but I just haven't had the drive this week. Here's the Ghostbuster theme:

For those who will be celebrating Halloween early (ie over the weekend via parties and gatherings), be safe and have fun.

In early honor of Halloween

...but first, as always, the week in review:

• Thought police
• Num num
• The difference between them and us
• Arming our teachers
• Iran's no-speed Internet
• Medical tourism

I talked about Boston Legal in my post on 'medical tourism,' which inspired me to see if YouTube had any clips from the show. Like I said in the medical post, the show more often than not annoys me. But I still watch it. Consistently. Why? Because of Denny Crane. Here's a clip from last year's Halloween episode.

Even though Alan Shore and Denny have a sometimes turbulent relationship, I sometimes wish I had an Alan that I could stay friends with, though disagree with. And that I could smoke cigars on the rough with...I need a flamingo friend, heh.

"He answers the phone...he don't actually talk, but he moves his lips."

More on that in a minute...

But first a roundup of what was an extremely short week of posting--actually, I think this is the least amount of posting I've done since school started. That can be attributed to midterms and plain and simple lack of time.

This week in review:

• Homosexuals on the Moon
• Getting rid of the body: Terminator 2 Style
• And finally...Basketball and security are NOT the same

Now for the video. I originally saw this a year or two ago, but decided to revisit it today. This horse is just downright amazing...though I'm sure PETA would object to him being 'exploited' for personal gain:

On a questionably related note, did anybody else know that horses are now being used as guides for the blind? It's true!

I will try to be back this afternoon. I have a few things I'd like to hit on...namely the death of cursive, which has been covered by a couple of other blogs, but I have some observations I'd like to make. Also, though, I attended the Callaghan/Capito debate in Martinsburg, WV on Wednesday night, and I have a few notes to share on that...

Wasted government funds

We'll get to the outrageous waste of tax payers money in just a minute.

But first, a HUGE congratulations to Brendan Shanahan (the new New York Ranger) for becoming the 15th player in NHL history to net 600 goals. We love you already, Brendan!

Secondly, the week in review

• Horrible atrocities in Lancaster
• Foley the Wierdo
• ED Hill
• Body Paint, Democrats and WV Politics
• Glenn Reynolds is (almost) always right
• It's the most wonderful time of the year. And finally...
• LGF covers "When multiculturalism attacks"

Now to unneeded government expenses...like, say, national defense:

"There's defense, social security, health, housing, and silly walks. Last year the government spent less on the ministry of Silly Walks than they did on defense"...absolutely unacceptable. Here's the proof:

Everybody have a great weekend. For you Shepherd U folks, best wishes for MIDTERM WEEK next week!

'First you gotta do the truffle-shuffle'

A classic line from a classic movie...

Topics for this week were:

• Clinton's rage here and here
• The 2006-2007 hockey season here and here
• The Pope
• Abortion politics
• The US/UN Reaction to Darfur (as appearing in The Picket)
• 7-Eleven Drops Citgo
• Personal ads gone wrong?
• ...and finally, Africa AIDS and the success of the Bush Policy

A special thanks to those who commented this week--I think three seperate commentors in one week is probably a Vent Pipe record. As usual, feel free to discuss any of the above topics through the comment area of this post.

Light posting (if any) over the weekend as I will be limited by time and motivation (how do I know I'll have limited motivation? I just can feel it...)

Apparently some of the bugs with Blogger Beta are worked out, so for the moment I can show video directly in a post... With that said, until next time enjoy Chunk and his famous 'truffle-shuffle' from The Goonies:

Tell it like it is

Well I had something really special picked out for today. But that new blogger beta crap doesn't support YouTube, so I'll have to just give a link instead. First, a review of the week:

• Satanists in India
• Blogger Beta
• Second Annual Tom E Moses Lecture
• The 'Mezz' Witch Hunt
• El Diablo
• ...and finally Jerry Mays

And now, for this weeks funny. As I noted above, the Blogger Beta is kicking my butt (and the butts of anybody else who hates this stupid Dashboard text editor and who likes using third party stuff such as YouTube) and so I can link to YouTube, but I cannot embed the actual video.

So here's the link to see Mr. Bill Clinton's take the the 2004 Democratic nomination for Vice President. Bill tells it like it is. Good stuff. Go watch. I mean it!

Don't forget, feel free to use this post to discuss any of the above topics or anything else.